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SPIRITUAL LIGHT. जेगीय्यते स्मेन्दुमयूखशुभ्रं यशो यदीयं पृथिवीतलेऽस्मिन् । महाभुजास्तेऽपि हता यमेन व्यादाय वक्त्रं सहसा प्रसुप्ताः ॥५३॥
( 51 )
Whenever one may go either to the caverns, in mountains, or to the interior of the ocean, or to the nether-worlds or to the abode of gods, he will not remain concealed from the God of Death; because he controls and rules three worlds. (lower, middle, higher).
( 52 ) The sovereign kings who dissipated the forces of the whole world by the might of their terrible staff-like arms and who were endowed with awe-inspiring lustre, once ably ruled the terrestrial globe. Even they (rulers) left this world indeed with empty hands.
( 53 ) Even the paramount kings whose glory bright like the rays of the moon was loudly trumpeted on this earth were struck by the God of Death, and to be prostrate on the grounds with their distorted faces.
Notes-Death is here portrayed as a fierce, terrible, undaunted and tyrannical monster, ever l'evelling in slaughter, committed irrespective of rank, position, wealth and beauty etc; in order to present lucidly before the mind, the frailty of mundane existence and the certainty of death and to draw out
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